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Check out : Uranus from NIRCam on NASA’s JWST shows the planet & its rings in new clarity. The planet’s seasonal north polar cap gleams in a bright white, & Webb’s exquisite sensitivity resolves Uranus’ dim inner and outer rings, including the Zeta ring—the extremely faint & diffuse ring closest to the it.
This image also shows 14 of the planet’s 27 moons: Oberon, Titania, Umbriel,Juliet,Perdita, Rosalind, Puck, Belinda, Desdemona,Cressida, Ariel, Miranda, Bianca, & Portia.
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@Shivpratap19@universeodon.comOne day on Uranus is about 17 hours, so the planet’s rotation is relatively quick. This makes it supremely difficult for observatories with a sharp eye like Webb to capture 1 simple image of the entire planet – storms & other atmospheric features, & the planet’s moons, move visibly within minutes.
This image combines several longer & shorter exposures of this dynamic system to correct for those slight changes throughout the observing time.